So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

The only relationship where you’ll never have your heart broken is the relationship between you and Allah.

The sacred duty of every soul is to fear God.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."— Aristotle

Compared to her, Sam ran like a girl and told himself as much.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear but grateful take the good I find the best of now and here.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and it really doesn't have a lot to do with enlightenment.

I don't miss a day of yoga. I don't miss my meditation... They're way more important.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.